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NINGYO Japanese 'human fish' #Yōkai. Appears first in the Nihonshoki in Osaka in the year 619 as a fish 'shaped like a child'; Ningyō bring good fortune & in some cases immortality; Happyaku bikuni is the myth of an 800 year old nun who ate Ningyō as a child #FolkloreSunday🎨Hsu

VAMPIRE BATS attack those imprudent enough to sleep without covering in South America, 1899
Oswald Levens illustration (Mary Evans Picture Library) #WyrdWednesday

PUSS IN BOOTS Often seen in panto, is the most renowned animal trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & Blue Fairy Book, 1889🎨Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten,1887 #FairyTaleTuesday

3. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge.
The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand #GothicAdvent 🎨1843, Coppings

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters a person's heart it will turn to ice #GothicAdvent #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨T.Pym

NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD A human girl feeds on night mist scented with flowers in this image by Mary Evans. Fairy food is transformed by 'glamour' and is likely to be old weeds & rotten fruit. The fae themselves prefer stalks of wild Heather & deer milk! #wyrdwednesday

THE OWL SERVICE was born when Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers. It draws on the MABINOGION; Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl #MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday

4 SEERS There are certain people who have permanent or sporadic power of seeing fairies without fairy permission. These are the 'second sighted' Highlanders, or the 'gifted' of the West Country, and 'sighted' in Ireland. 🎨Fitzgerald

VAMPIRES & WEREWOLVES Contrary to recent fictions the #werewolf is closely related to the #vampire. VUKODLAK, Serbo-Croatian for vampire, means 'wolf's hair'. VYRKOLAKA is a Greek term for either vampire or werewolf. In Greek lore werewolves can become vampires after death

WILD HUNT In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of #ghosts of the restless dead, which ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises; reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve #Gothtober